Draft:Lydekker's pangolin
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| Lydekker's pangolin Temporal range: Late Pleistocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Pholidota |
| Suborder: | Eupholidota |
| Superfamily: | Manoidea |
| Family: | Manidae |
| Subfamily: | Maninae |
| Genus: | Manis |
| Species: | †M. lydekkeri
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| †Manis lydekkeri Dubois, 1908 (Dubois, 1908)[1]
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Lydekker's pangolin (Manis lydekkeri) is an extinct species of pangolin, in the genus Manis in the subfamily Maninae and the family Manidae, that inhabited Asia during the Late Pleistocene.[4][5][6][7][8]
Etymology Species: Origin of name from: Meaning of name: M. lydekkeri of the Manis genus and the name of the English naturalist and geologist Richard Lydekker (who found and described the fossil remains of this species) lydecker's mantis Description The only currently known remains of this species of mantis are a few finger joints found at fossil sites in southern India.[7]
Systematics
References
[edit]- ^ Dubois E. (1908) "Das Geologische Alter der Kendengoder Trinil-Fauna." Tijdschr. Kon. Ned. Aardr. Gen., Serie 2 (25):1235-1270, pl. 39.
- ^ Lydekker, R. (1886) "The Fauna of Kurnool Caves." Palaeontologia Indica Series C. 4(2): 23-58
- ^ K. N. Prasad (1996) "Pleistocene cave fauna from peninsular India" Journal of Caves and Karst Studies 58(1): 30-34.
- ^ Dubois E. (1926) "Manis palaejavanica, the giant pangolin of the Kendeng Fauna." Proc. K. Nederlandsche Akad. v. Wetensch, Amsterdam, 29:1233–1243
- ^ Hooijer D. A. (1947). "A femur of Manis palaeojavanica (Dubois) from Western Java" (PDF). Proc. K. Nederlandsche Akad. V. Wetensch. 50. Amsterdam: 413–418. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-06-05.
- ^ Daniel Gebo, D. Tab Rasmussen (1985) "The Earliest Fossil Pangolin (Pholidota: Manidae) from Africa" Journal of Mammalogy, 66(3):538
- ^ a b Gaudin, Timothy (2009-08-28). "The Phylogeny of Living and Extinct Pangolins (Mammalia, Pholidota) and Associated Taxa: A Morphology Based Analysis" (PDF). Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 16 (4). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Science+Business Media: 235–305. doi:10.1007/s10914-009-9119-9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-25. Retrieved 2015-05-14.
- ^ Dubois, E. "Das geologische Alter der Kendeng- oder Trinil-Fauna". Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, Ser. 2 (in German) (25): 1235–1270. ISSN 0927-5177.